Breitbart News

Breitbart News is a major conservative news source founded by Andrew Breitbart. Presently, it is a conservative media juggernaut providing breaking news stories that the mainstream media would suppress from the general public. Exposing liberal bias in media has proven profitable as Breitbart has created other successful news sites; Breitbart.TV, BigGovernment, BigJournalism, BigHollywood, and most recently BigPeace. Breitbart is such a threat to the left that Media Matters constantly harasses them with misinformation campaigns. The Breitbart properties have provided some of the most ground-breaking news stories over the last several years and can be credited with taking down ACORN and exposing race baiting against the Tea Party movement by Democrat politicians. Per their website,

"Breitbart is currently serving about 20 million news pages per month to more than three million unique visitors. Many top bloggers rely on Breitbart as a primary news resource. Technorati puts Breitbart.com in its Top 50, with more than 30,000 links from nearly 8,000 blogs."

In 2016, Breitbart News ranked 29th in overall internet traffic according to Alexa.[1] It played an influential role in the media and in the 2016 presidential election.[2][3][4] Breitbart's London section became so influential that Damian Green, Prime Minister Theresa May's deputy, called it out by name due to its criticism of the UK government for its failure at ensuring a clean Brexit.[5]

Liberals have claimed that Breitbart is an "alt-right" website and have tried to connect the site with white supremecists and neo-Nazis. However, Breitbart supports economic nationalism, which has nothing to do with race or ethnicity, and it is a strong supporter of Israel and conservative non-white politicians. In addition, a study conducted by Harvard and M.I.T. found that Breitbart does not represent any of those ideologies and that Breitbart readers actually were regular conservatives.[6] Unlike the mainstream media, which claims to be unbiased and objective while actually promoting a left-wing point of view, Breitbart is transparent about the fact that it promotes conservative and nationalist views.[7] Despite being a conservative news outlet, it has taken certain liberal positions at times, such as firing an editor in June 2017 for posting Tweets in opposition to Islam and Islamic immigration.[8] Some liberal commentators have admitted that Breitbart is more influential than Fox News.[9]

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Ownership and leadership

Until August 2016, Bannon was the executive chairman of Breitbart News,[10] though he briefly returned as its chief executive in 2017 and early 2018. The current owners are: Larry Solov, founder Andrew Breitbart’s widow, Susie Breitbart, and the Mercer family. Breitbart’s family owns the largest stake.[10]